Victaphanta atramentaria
| Victaphanta atramentaria | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura |
| Superfamily: | Rhytidoidea |
| Family: | Rhytididae |
| Genus: | Victaphanta |
| Species: | V. atramentaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Victaphanta atramentaria (Shuttleworth, 1852) | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Nanina atramentaria Shuttleworth, 1852 | |
Victaphanta atramentaria, common name the Gippsland black snail, is a species of carnivorous air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Rhytididae. [1]
Distribution
This species is endemic to Australia and occurs in Victoria.
References
- Shuttleworth, R.J. 1852. Diagnosen neuer Mollusken. Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern 1852: 193-208
- Iredale, T. 1933. Systematic notes on Australian land shells. Records of the Australian Museum 19: 37-59
- Smith, B.J. 1970. Notes on the anatomy of Victaphanta atramentaria Shuttleworth and V. compacta Cox & Hedley, and the designation of a neotype for V. atramentaria. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2: 13-21
- Laws, H.M. 1971. The chromosomes of some Australasian Paryphantidae. Malacologia 11: 217-224
- Smith, B.J. 1992. Non-Marine Mollusca. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Non-marine Mollusca. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 8 xii 408 pp
- Mollusc Specialist Group 1996. Victaphanta atramentaria. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007.
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